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Swan Lake with a Wow

imastawka — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 05:05:15 GMT

Amazing

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amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 05:16:21 GMT

They have combined ballet with cheerleading. Not very elegant. But then I am biased 🙂

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ten*teeny*tiny*toes — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 05:21:20 GMT

I saw that on FB recently, stawka. Shared by a dancer friend.

Amazing! The en pointe on each of his shoulders and more. Just wow!

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imastawka — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 05:26:36 GMT

I was impressed too. I thought it was a very unique talent.

amber, didn't think you would take to it. To each his own

Don't understand where the 'cheerleading' comes into it though

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amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 05:28:21 GMT

Very skilled though 🙂

the cheerleading was the gymnastic elements. Balancing upon the man. As cheerleaders do, even in pyramid formation.

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the_great_she_elephant — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 05:28:22 GMT

Just extraordinary.

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imastawka — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 05:32:19 GMT

It is a circus act though. Not a ballet company.

She had a 'spotter'. Wonder how many times she fell during

rehearsal?

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ten*teeny*tiny*toes — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 05:34:28 GMT

It looks effortless, doesn't it?

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Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 05:35:27 GMT

Excellent !

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amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 05:39:02 GMT

Yes, I know...they do a good job. But as you say, not me as does not have the classical form.

nice to see though, thanks for putting it up 🙂

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bright.ton42 — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 07:10:05 GMT

So graceful

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electric*mayhem*band — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 07:42:11 GMT

I think everyone is aware of just how fit and honed a ballet dancer has to be. Doubly so, to execute that kind of performance I should think. Fantastic.

Cheers Stawka !

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b3llag1na — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 07:44:09 GMT

I thought it was amazing!

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imastawka — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 07:46:25 GMT

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tasfleur — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 09:40:59 GMT

Absolutely superb, brilliant and the discipline to be able to do that is total, thanks Stawka xxx

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twyngwyn — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 09:58:10 GMT

watch from 1:45

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tlAFhXx48w

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cherry*135 — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 10:47:42 GMT

I went to a traditional/classical performance of Swan Lake by the Russian Ballet. I liked that better, much more graceful.

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twyngwyn — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:07:12 GMT

everyone has their own preferences - but art is meant to raise eyebrows or move us in some way...as long as it does 🙂

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cherry*135 — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:23:04 GMT

That's right, which is why I expressed mine.

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tasfleur — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:36:17 GMT

The music for the Swan Lake ballet was written by Tchaikovsky.

I'm not sure why "The Swan", from the suite 'Carnival of the Animals', written by Saint-Saens is referred to as "the dying swan" because it was never intended as a death scene of a swan though.

They are often confused and juxtaposed together, but are not related.

From the internet and credited below:

The Swan (Le Cygne in French), was composed in 1886 by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), a French composer. Saint-Saëns created a musical composition entitled The Carnival of The Animals as a form of private entertainment for friends, and The Swan, a lovely, lyrical cello solo, is one of best known pieces from this work. It took Saint-Saëns only a few days to compose The Carnival of The Animals, and Saint-Saëns created it as a musical joke for friends, parodying the music of other composers with his witty musical characterizations of fossils, tortoises, birds, sea creatures, lions and other mammals. Saint-Saëns only performed The Carnival of The Animals privately a few times for friends and did not permit it to be performed publicly during his lifetime (he apparently felt this musical work was not a serious reflection of his compositional skills). The only piece from this work that he did permit to be performed publicly, was The Swan. Saint-Saëns originally composed The Swan as a cello solo with two pianos. In 1887, he published a rearranged version of The Swan for cello solo with one piano. After the death of Saint-Saëns in 1921, the public premiere of The Carnival of the Animals took place in 1922.

The original score of The Carnival of the Animals called for the following instruments: two pianos, two violins, viola, cello, double bass, flute, clarinet, glockenspiel, glass harmonica and xylophone. Some of the other 14 pieces in The Carnival of The Animals include The Elephant, with a lumbering melody performed by a double bass with piano accompaniment; Kangaroos, played by the leaping melodies of two pianos; and The Aviary, featuring the flittering melody of the flute accompanied by fluttering strings and piano.

REFERENCE NOTES

Harding, James and Fallon, Daniel M. " Camille Saint- Saëns," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London : Macmillian, 1980. 16:400-407.

Ratner, Sabina Teller. Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921: The instrumental works. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002: 188-192.